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折	zhé	to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book
一波三折	yī bō sān zhé	calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns
扭曲	niǔ qū	to twist / to warp / to distort
扭	niǔ	to turn / to twist / to wring / to sprain / to swing one's hips
波折	bō zhé	twists and turns
双绞线	shuāng jiǎo xiàn	twisted pair (cabling)
峰回路转	fēng huí lù zhuǎn	the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
拧	nǐng	mistake / to twist
拧成一股绳	níng chéng yī gǔ shéng	to twist (strands) together to form a rope / (fig.) to unite; to work together
周折	zhōu zhé	twists and turns / vicissitude / complication / difficulty / effort / CL:番
绞	jiǎo	to twist (strands into a thread) / to entangle / to wring / to hang (by the neck) / to turn / to wind / classifier for skeins of yarn
盘陀	pán tuó	twisted / spiral / uneven stones
扭摆	niǔ bǎi	to twist and sway (one's body)
搓	cuō	to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist
枉	wǎng	to twist / crooked / unjust / in vain
一波未平，一波又起	yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ	before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
强扭的瓜不甜	qiǎng niǔ de guā bù tián	lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
扭结	niǔ jié	to tangle up / to twist together / to wind
强词夺理	qiǎng cí duó lǐ	to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
拗	ǎo	(dialect) to twist; to bend (in order to break sth or form it into a shape)